With Washington’s unemployment rate hovering near 9%, workers and small businesses in the state need advocates in Congress who will stand with them as opposed to special interests promoting a job-killing agenda. But unfortunately, just the opposite is true in The Evergreen State. Senator Patty Murray has decided the union boss agenda supplants the concerns of employees and employers in her state.

Murray supports radical legislation titled the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) even though there is nothing free about it. In reality, the bill should be called the Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act. EFCA eliminates the secret ballot in the unionization process by forcing a public vote, known as card check. As a result, workers focused on making a living and feeding their families are placed under enormous pressure by union bosses and organizers and even bullied into supporting a union, whether they want one or not.

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